Zechariah 11:10

The Shepherd breaks the staff 'Favor,' annulling a covenant of restraint He had with the peoples. It matters because it signals the withdrawal of God's protective grace over the nation.

Cross-references · 20

• Zech 11:7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
• Ps 89:39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
• Jer 31:31–32Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
• Heb 8:8–13For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
• Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
• Luke 21:5–6And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
• Heb 7:17–22For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
• Ps 90:17And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
• 1 Sam 2:30Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
• Luke 21:32Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
• Rom 9:3–5For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
• Hos 1:9Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
• Acts 6:13–14And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
• Num 14:34After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
• Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
• Ezek 7:20–22As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
• Ezek 16:59–61For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
• Ezek 24:21Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
• Dan 9:26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
• Gal 3:16–18Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

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